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Media expert Dr Klaas Jonkheid found murdered

June 1 2009 - Jackie Pienaar-Brink reports from Die Burger newspaper in Stellenbosch that the murdered and partially burnt body of Dr Klaas Jonkheid, 48, a top Afrikaans news media consumer expert who had just completed a market survey for that newspaper, was found murdered and torched in a church yard in Faure in the Western Cape over the weekend.

Stellenbosch police said they arrested four men in Bellville-South over the weekend who were in possession of his cellphone, and a battery and spare wheel from his rental car.

Dr Jonkheid, owner of the Consumer Psychology Lab in Parkhurst, Johannesburg, ‘presumably died of a head injury,’ said Stellenbosch police spokeswoman René Matthee. “There are indications that he had been set alight after his death.”

He was staying at the Protea-hotel near the Stellenbosch Technopark for the duration of his Western Cape visit. On May 30 2009, the local police was informed by a passerby that a man’s burnt body was lying in a wooded patch on the terrain of the St. Paul’s Church about 500 metres from the Faure railway station.

According to Matthee, Jonkheid left Spier at about 15:00 on Friday and was due to return at 19:00 for a farewell dinner, but never showed up. He didn’t arrive for his flight back to Johannesburg at 08:00 on Saturday either. Dr Jonkheid then was reported missing by his wife and was positively identified by forensic experts as the man who had been found murdered and torched in Faure.

”It’s a huge, huge shock”, said Henry Jeffreys, editor of Die Burger Afrikaans newspaper. “He’s very well-known in the media world, and he did research for Media24 products. He was without a doubt at the top-end of his field.”

With a D-Comm in Marketing Management from Rand Afrikaans University, Jonkheid worked his way up the marketing ranks as a marketing and communication strategist through to Strategic Planning Director at advertising agency FCB. He regularly lectured at the Witwatersrand and Rand Afrikaans universities, was a multiple winner of Southern African Marketing Research Association (SAMRA) awards, and a member of the Society for Consumer Psychology in the United States. During his career Klaas devised branding and communication strategies for numerous major brands and in 2003, together with Dr Thomas Oosthuizen, established iD8 Marketing Services

He had just completed research for the recent redesign of Die Burger and concluded a country-wide study about the market of Afrikaans-speaking ‘people of colour’ for the media company. Its project manager Mrs Friede le Roux said he was highly regarded in news media circles. ‘He was intelligent, inspiring, professional and full of passion for his job’, she said.

Jonkheid also was a Harley-Davidson motorbike enthuisiast. He ran the Consumer Psychology Lab with his wife Liezel in Parkhurst, Johannesburg. He is survived by his parents Klaas and Joan of Kleinmond and Pretoria.

The rented blue Toyota Yaris he’d hired from Avis in Cape Town is still missing. The investigating officer is Det. Constable Stephen Adams, at tel. 079 854 2680 or 021 809 9140

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